My local BP garage always advertises the highest price in the area so I shop elsewhere to save a penny or two a litre.
On Sunday I decided to use them again and was pleasantly surprised to find that they are doing a loyalty card called:-
Autogas LPG Accumulator.
Basically you get a card which is stamped every time you buy 30 litres or more of LPG.
Next time you go in you get 1p off the price of a litre plus another stamp.
Next time you get 2p off plus another stamp etc.
The maximum discount is 10p a litre which brings it down to 53.9p, well below the oppositions best price.
It says on the card that it can be used at participating stations but I cannot find out anything about it on the web.
Anyone else come across it or have I been missing something for the last few months?

Interesting, no mention of BP on it at all. I found a similar card in my LSE when I got it. I was told that it was a local thing at a filling station in Guildford the previous owner used to use regularly.

pjpj wrote:What happens when you get to the last box though?
Do they take the card off of you and you have to start a fresh card?

If they don't make you re-start a new card it is a surprisingly good deal for BP

I was wondering about that too and will check it out next refill.
It's like a Nero's card in that you need the stamps to get the free coffee but in other ways it's not.
With Nero's you build up to finally reach a 'one off' offer and then restart.
Effectively they are giving you a free coffee for every 9 purchased equating to an 11% discount.
With this one you start getting benefits immediately after visit 1.
The pump price here is 63.9p so my first discount of 1p is about 1½% discount.
At it's peak I will be getting 10p off which equates to about 15% discount so taking into account all the steps to reach the top, it equates to an overall discount of 8½%.
If I was allowed to carry on, this percentage would increase every time I made a purchase but never getting above 15%.
This is working on 63.9p so the percentage discount would be greater or lesser depending on the pump price.
I think my approximations are correct but who knows?
I'll keep you all informed unless someone else knows more?

I did a quick calculation and the mid-point price is 58.9p. If you filled up 11 times (to get the full effect of the offer) at 30 litres a time, you'd save £16.50 over those 11 fills. In other words you'd get 28 litres free. So, broadly speaking, if you take up the offer, your 11th fill is more or less free (so it is a bit like Nero's coffee card).

If you assume it's cash neutral for the garage he's retailing LPG at least 5p per litre over the odds to make it pay.

OK. I've been back today and got my discount of 3p per litre this time.
I spoke to the staff member who confirmed that once the card is filled, I have to start again from scratch.
It still equates to a 5p saving per litre overall which comfortably makes it the cheapest around.
She couldn't help me out with which other garages are participating in the scheme but says that it's not a BP promo.
The manager thinks that it might be a Malthurst scheme.
They are the owners of the garage and after doing a bit of Googling, I found out that they have 26 sites that sell LPG but they aren't all BP. Some are Texaco, some Total plus some others I haven't found yet.
I've sent an email to Malthurst (Pace) head Office to see if I can get any more info from them.
In the meantime, here's a list of the Post Codes of Malthurst LPG garages that I have found so far. I've shown the ones that I know are BP.
If you're in that area, have a look to see if they are participating.
B18 5AU
B69 2BH BP
BS10 7TJ
BS36 1AH
CB1 8DH
DH1 3RY
EX6 7XX
LS24 8EG
NG8 6AX BP
PE12 9AE BP
PL12 6AF
RG7 1BA BP
ST15 3RW
WA16 6LF BP
WS9 8DL BP
Further updates later.

I have made a TomTom POI of all the participating outlets.
If you'd like a copy, pm me.
I can also do them in other formats; Garmin etc. but have no way of checking if they will work.
Tell me what format you need and I'll give it a go.

we had a discussion on here a while back about this at the Brighton garage. At that one if you send your misses in and get her to flirt with the fella on the till he puts 3 or 4 stamps on the new card to start you off

RobTheShirt wrote:I have made a TomTom POI of all the participating outlets.
If you'd like a copy, pm me.
I can also do them in other formats; Garmin etc. but have no way of checking if they will work.
Tell me what format you need and I'll give it a go.

If you want to be able to offer the POI file in formats for other satnavs, download a copy of a program called POIEdit. If allows you to convert between different formats. I've used it to convert a TomTom file to Garmin format and it does work.

Gilbertd wrote:If you want to be able to offer the POI file in formats for other satnavs, download a copy of a program called POIEdit. If allows you to convert between different formats. I've used it to convert a TomTom file to Garmin format and it does work.

Thanks. That's what I used to make the original POI.
I was aware that it could convert to other formats but don't have any way of checking it once converted.
That's why I was a bit hesitant about offering it. I know that the TomTom one works.